The Field Post

The field post service was utilized to forward mail from and to some government and military establishments. The Field post during Italian Social Republic, derived from the more complex German mail system called Feldpost, that assigned a number of five figures to every combat unit. The italian numbering had, instead, a number of three figures, mostly assigned to Provincial Military Commands ( CMP ) of the most important cities. A different cancel was used to identify the four Italian Division deployed in Germany to training, i.e. : Monterosa, Italia, Littorio and San Marco. At the bottom are the four cancels belonging to these Divisions.

The letter A was assigned to San Marco Division, letter B to Italia Division, C to Monterosa and D to Littorio. The mail cancelled with these cancels is interesting.

Some covers coming from San Marco and Littorio Divisions are above showed. The red cancels are from German Munich censorship.

The typology of the cancel showed above is resolutely rareless than previouses, but interesting. The writing inside was accompanied by a number of three figures. The table at the bottom, shows some of these numbers assigned to Provincial Military Commands ( CMP ), deployed in some Italian cities.